It was kind of a weird segment! Not because of anything Jay did — he laid out The Correspondent’s principles and pitch perfectly well — but because Noah did the entire interview via a Siri-like voice on his phone. (He’s been having voice issues.) Unsurprisingly, it made the interview more, well, robotic. I think Jay would’ve gotten at least one additional applause break from The People Formerly Known as the In-Studio Audience without it.

This was not, I should add, Rosen’s first appearance on The Daily Show. Google tells me that would be a March 3, 2005 appearance in which he was interviewed for a correspondent segment by Rob Corddry, riffing off the then-current Jeff Gannon scandal. (Ah, simpler times.) Thankfully, I was able to find a clip. So if you’ve been waiting your entire life to hear Rob Corddry describe online journalism as “like f**king in the ’70s” — “there are no rules” — and to see Jay Rosen respond with this look, well, today you are truly living your best life.

If The Correspondent wanted to see an immediate tsunami of financial support after the segment aired last night, it might be a little disappointed. At this writing, The Correspondent has raised $1.3 million of its $2.5 million goal. (Twenty of those bucks were mine, for what it’s worth.) With only 7 days left in its month-long fund drive, that’s still a pretty tall climb, assuming there’s not a last-resort whale waiting in the wings. It reached $718,000 in its first 5 days. It took the next 9 days to reach $1 million, and it’s taken another 9 days to reach $1.3 million.